AUSTIN, Texas -- The Texas Lutheran Volleyball team completed the perfect Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) season Sunday afternoon, sweeping Concordia (TX) 3-0 (25-18, 25-12, 25-18) to finish the regular season 13-0 in SCAC play and earn the outright regular-season championship and number one seed in this week's tournament. The title is the first regular season SCAC championship for the Bulldogs (21-5, 13-0 SCAC).
The Bulldogs only dropped nine sets total in SCAC play.
The Bulldogs become the first SCAC team to go undefeated play since Trinity in 2022 (16-0). It is the Bulldogs first unbeaten conference season since 2003 (19-0), coming in the American Southwest Conference (ASC) and is the only other undefeated conference season for the program since becoming an NCAA institution.
Head Coach
Phyllis Fowler completes her first undefeated conference season in her nine-year tenure with the Bulldogs. It is the fourth time in her tenure that the Bulldogs have won 20+ games in a season.
The Bulldogs hit .325, going over .300 for the second time this season. TLU held the Tornados (10-14, 7-6 SCAC) to a .121 hitting percentage.
Ava Search (Richmond/Needville) had a career-high 17 kills, 13 digs and three service aces for her second double-double of the weekend, her third straight, and eighth of the season.
Zaria Solis (Burnet/Burnet) had 11 kills on .500 hitting and added a season-high five blocks.
Andie Lozano-Lomeli (Brownsville/Pace) had eight kills on .636 hitting and added four blocks and two assists. Lozano-Lomeli concludes the regular season with a .263 hitting percentage, ranking sixth in the SCAC and her .316 percentage in the SCAC ranks fourth amongst eligible players.
Nadia Dunn (Houston/Pearland) had eight kills, while Briana Salatierra-Moore (San Antonio/Antonian College Prep) posted four kills, four blocks, five digs and two aces.
Ella Waterbury (Buda/Johnson) notched 26 assists and nine digs.
Addison Gallegos (Floresville/Jourdanton) added 13 assists and nine digs.
Kieryn Adams (Schulenburg/Schulenburg) had a team-high 20 assists and five assists getting the start at libero.
The Bulldogs had a 51-30 advantage in kills, 6-2 in aces, 8-2, in blocks, and 71-53 in digs.
A 7-1 run in the first set set the Bulldogs up for success early on as the Bulldogs took the opening set 25-18. Solis led the Bulldogs through the opening set with six kills on .600 hitting and four blocks.
A 10-3 run started the second set as the Bulldogs cruised to a 2-0 lead behind a 25-12 second set victory. Dunn took over for the Bulldogs with six kills in the set, hitting .667 in the process.
Ella Waterbury served as the primary facilitator in the set, finishing with ten assists, as the Bulldogs hit .630 in the period.
After falling behind 8-5 to start the third set, TLU went on a 7-0 run to take a 12-8 lead. TLU maintained that separation before eventually pulling away to complete the sweep as
Ava Search put the match away with her tenth kill of the set.
Texas Lutheran concludes its regular season with a 21-5 overall record in addition to its 13-0 SCAC mark. The Bulldogs are the No. 1 overall seed in the 2026 SCAC Tournament, which begins Friday in Longview. Texas Lutheran has earned a bye into the quarterfinal round and will play its first match Friday at 4 PM CT against Austin College or Concordia (TX), the tournament's four and five seeds, depending on who advances in the first round. The tournament will air on FloCollege. All streaming and live stats links will be available on tlubulldogs.com.
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